Psalms 71:9

71:9 Do not reject me in my old age! ¹ 

When my strength fails, do not abandon me!

Psalms 71:18

71:18 Even when I am old and gray, ² 

O God, do not abandon me,

until I tell the next generation about your strength,

and those coming after me about your power. ³ 

Job 32:6-7

Elihu Claims Wisdom

32:6 So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: ⁴ 

“I am young, ⁵  but you are elderly;

that is why I was fearful, ⁶ 

and afraid to explain ⁷  to you what I know.

32:7 I said to myself, ‘Age ⁸  should speak, ⁹ 

and length of years ¹⁰  should make wisdom known.’

Acts 21:16

21:16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea ¹¹  came along with us too, and brought us to the house ¹²  of Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple from the earliest times, ¹³  with whom we were to stay.

Philemon 1:8-9

Paul’s Request for Onesimus

1:8 So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper, 1:9 I would rather appeal ¹⁴  to you on the basis of love – I, Paul, an old man ¹⁵  and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus ¹⁶  –

¹ tn Heb “do not cast me away at the time of old age.”

² tn Heb “and even unto old age and gray hair.”

³ tn Heb “until I declare your arm to a generation, to everyone who comes your power.” God’s “arm” here is an anthropomorphism that symbolizes his great strength.

⁴ tn Heb “answered and said.”

⁵ tn The text has “small in days.”

⁶ tn The verb זָחַלְתִּי (zakhalti) is found only here in the OT, but it is found in a ninth century Aramaic inscription as well as in Biblical Aramaic. It has the meaning “to be timid” (see H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 208).

⁷ tn The Piel infinitive with the preposition (מֵחַוֹּת, mekhavvot) means “from explaining.” The phrase is the complement: “explain” what Elihu feared.

⁸ tn Heb “days.”

⁹ tn The imperfect here is to be classified as an obligatory imperfect.

¹⁰ tn Heb “abundance of years.”

¹¹ sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1.

¹² tn Grk “to Mnason…”; the words “the house of” are not in the Greek text, but are implied by the verb ξενισθῶμεν (xenisqwmen).

¹³ tn Or perhaps, “Mnason of Cyprus, one of the original disciples.” BDAG 137 s.v. ἀρχαῖος 1 has “ἀ. μαθητής a disciple of long standing (perh. original disc.) Ac 21:16.”

¹⁴ tn Or “encourage.”

¹⁵ tn Or perhaps “an ambassador” (so RSV, TEV), reading πρεσβευτής for πρεσβύτης (a conjecture proposed by Bentley, cf. BDAG 863 s.v. πρεσβύτης). NRSV reads “old man” and places “ambassador” in a note.

¹⁶ tn Grk “a prisoner of Christ Jesus.”